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Originally Posted by stephanie5d
I'm wondering if I'm on the right track w/ saving my images to send to a photo processor. I shoot jpeg & process in CS3. Most of the time, I crop to 5x7 size at 350 pixels per inch. Once I'm done with touch ups & other stuff, I flatten the image & save as 10-quality.
Is this right? Am I degrading my image more than I have to? Is there another way?? 
Help, if you can! Thank you!!
Stephanie |
Why do you save to 350ppi?
Use the crop tool and enter the sizes you want. I generally leave the ppi box blank as I don't like throwing away pixel info but it depends on the lab's (or my own) requirements. Generally 300ppi for any given image size is the max resolution you will require. If you have less, your lab should easily be able to upsample (better than Ps can).
If you are printing larger than 10x8, you can reduce the ppi value without any noticeavble reduction in quality. I print my A3+ images at around 150ppi. They look great!
Other than that, what you are doing seems fine.